It’s not time, yet, to decipher the dress code

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The artwork Maybe is part of an exhibition by Tony Heath in Shoreditch, East London

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This "shoe car" at least looks easy to parkKrishnendu Halder/Reuters

Martin WallerCity Diary

Last updated at 12:01AM, March 8 2012

A wardrobe malfunction for George Osborne at the Engineering Employers
Federation’s manufacturing dinner at the Dorchester. The Chancellor was the
only man in the room not in black tie.

David Gauke, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, was properly dressed.
Osborne apologised and insisted that it wasn’t an “ideological statement”.
He said that it “was mildly less embarrassing to turn up here in a suit
rather than to turn up to the Budget planning meeting in a tux”.

We’ll let you off this time, Gideon, though it is bad manners not to obey the
dress code if you agree to

It is understandable that the construction of an air-polluting,
noise-blighting £22 billion third runway to turn Heathrow into the world’s
pre-eminent superhub caught the eye, but the Davies report into airport
expansion also made another radical suggestion: that — third runway or not —
Heathrow should start acting like the UK hub that it pretends to be